The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

worth Of horses and carriages have been stolen
within radius of Is miles from the Dover IN.
| H. City Hall.
CHAMBERS has attacked son of Representa-
tive Pierce of the Illinois Legislature, the infec
ton having been communicated by sore on
! one OF the hands OF the young man.
THE engagement of Mr.. Brown and Mollie
Garfield, it is now said, is not broken, and the
! going abroad of the latter had nothing to do
with it, They will be married next summer.
A NEW YORK THIEF, who followed and alb
stracted from an express wagon valuable
package the other day at Cleveland, O., was
killed few moments later by a locomotive, in
front of which he attempted TO cross
A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT travelling on the
Pacific coast notes the curious fact that the
stronghold of prohibition sentiment in Wash
ington Territory is found in the hop-growing
| district between Tacoma and thee Cascade
mountains.
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO fire broke out in the
workings of colliery near Pottsville, Pa. Two
or three days later Eddie Ferguson, the 16-year-
old son of the superintendent, broke through
the shallow crust. The skeleton of the lad has
now been discovered, lying full length and face
downward.
ST.. LOUIS has decided to adopt the electric
| for three of its street railways. A COM
mission sent on to Philadelphia and New
messed were entirely satisfactory. The mem
beers have made up their minds that electricity
is the coming motive power.
Prof f. E. BoYNToN says that region Of
country twenty miles in diameter, where North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia come to-
gether, contains more interesting and rare
pants than can be found in any spot In the
United States occupying the same area" de
calls the district "a botanical bonanza"
d. NJ. SPINNEY, of Admission. Ala, has
horned snake which he killed while out hunting.
There were two of them, not over foot apart,
and when Mr.. Spinney first discovered them
| they appeared in the act of springing at him.
| They were about one foot long with a hard horn
| on the end of their tails, which is their weapon
| of defense They have been known to kill small
| trees by goring their horns through the bark.
| This species is also known as the hoop snake.
SAYS the Danville Commercial: lone of
Charles Adair's favorite hens choked to death
| the other day in a mysterious manner and he
determined to investigate the matter by post
| morton examination, which disclosed the fact
| That she had died from suffocation caused by a
large lump of chewing gum becoming lodged in
| the Wlndppe in such a way as 10 cut Off the
| necessary amount of atmosphere to keep a
healthy hen in good health. This is a sad warn
! ing to young ladies who chew gum. To old
maids il will make no difference-they can't be
| choked off,
S. D. SMoLIANINoFF, a Russian inventor and
method of firing nitro lycerine from common
shells and common guns, has permit from
| the War and Navy authorities to make expert
ments at Newport, using government guns and
smells. His secret lies in rendering the nitro
| glycerlne perfectly inert to cOncusSion or to
defamation by heat Furthermore. he claims to
be able to explode his shell at any point or after
penetration. He will conduct experiments at
| the torpedo station, after which he proposes to
| illustrate his idea in all the countries of
| Europe.
A wELLrKNowN BELLE of New Orleans has
| passion for Brazilian bugs, which are supposed
to live on air. She wears them in her hair and
about her dress, not only in private but in pub
| lie. Sometimes, when in q hurry to get home,
| she will patronize the Democratic street car
where she is the observed of all the passengers
on account Of the bugs crawling over her gar
ments. These bugs do not roam at will; they
can go certain distance and no farther, for
they are held by fine gold chain, which is
pinned to her dress. Some years ago this a
| popular freak of fashion, and there is posi-
| biiity of its being revived
OF all the reflex celebrities, the man who
looks or thinks he looks like the late President
| Arthur, and who travels on the strength of such
resemblance, is the most complacent. He is
| large and horid, and he wears his whiskers and
moustache after the manner of the late Presi-
| dent. He made quite a reputation in Broadway
| saloons and cafes while the late Gen. Arthur
was alive, and on the death of that distinguished
and amiable gentleman he had the good taste to
| stay under cover for month or two. Now.
| however, he is abroad again, posing as hero of
| chance resemblance, and smiling when he is
| alluded to as the ghost"
| TIE suddenness with which lightning rods
have fallen into disuse is rather a curious fact
A few years since every business house and pri-
vate residence was bIistlng with rods and points,
while the lightning-rod agent was the most in
| tolerable nuisance that ever imposed upon the
public. 1t was formerly thought that the rod
| protection houses
years people labored under this delusion But
the fact il that the rod is not necessity and is
| oftentimes source of positive danger A resi-
dence or business house is just about as safe in
a storm without rod as with one, and the peo-
pie of this generation have learned this fact.
ABOUT four months ago Mrs. Settles the wife
| of Andrew Settles, farmer living near Lathrop
! Mo-, was in the garden at work with her son. a
| boy about IA years of age. Two snakes were
| noticed fighting, and Mrs. Settles commanded
| her son TO kill them, which the boy did mash
| ing their heads with hoe. Mrs. Settles watched
| the fight and the killing of the snakes with in
terest, and one week ago she gave birth to
twins Both of them have hattened heads like
| n snake and had to be separated on account of
| their hostility to each other. The family had
| intended to keep the matter from the newspa-
| pers and nothing has been said of it up to this
time.
ENGIIsH treasury officials are considering the
| request from the Astronomical Society for a
| grant to enable England to take part in the
| grand project, first proposed at the last astro-
nomical congress in Paris, of making a complete
| Photographic map Of the heavens by appliances
now perfected. 1t is believed that several mill
lion stars could be photographed France and
Austria have already made grants for the pllr-
pose and it is expected that Russia and Ger
many Will also Join Englands aid is specially
needed for the Use Of the observatory at the
Cape of Good Hope and the one which is to he
built in New Zealand. 1t is said that the United
states will also be invited to join. The phote,
graphic telescope to be used costs about
$4,000.
WHEN the politicians return from Albany or
Saratoga special preparation is made for their
reception at big saloon across the way from
the exit at the Grand Central depot The free
lunch counter is made marveloIIsly attractive
and an extra stock of liquor is put ill., Polti-
clans know it as the Travellers Remuneration
When the politicians are TO go out similar prep
arations are made in another barroom on the
Vanderbilt avenue side of the Hudson River
station. This place is in he rear of a grocery
store. and is known only TO the initiated There
is no style there, but there is rivalry with a
Travellers Recuperator for the praises of clls-
toners for the liquor and lunch This place is
known as the Travellers Fortifier Every poll
tician has been there.
IT is an interesting fact, shown by the immi-
grafton statistics just issued at Washington, that
immigration from Bohemia and Hungary, and
from Poland has been steadily decreasing for
the current year. For the month of September
there was a falling of as omDared with Septen-
Der, 1886, in Bohemian and Hungarian immigra-
.s.Na